Preview Deployments — Killing the Staging Bottleneck
Staging is a queue; previews are parallel
Shared staging serializes review and breeds it-works-on-staging surprises. Per-PR previews with seeded demo data let five features get reviewed simultaneously against identical baselines.
Data strategy
Seeded fixtures (never production dumps) with one-click reset. Preview databases branch from staging snapshots automatically; PII never leaves production-shaped vaults. Reviewers test destructive flows freely because reset is trivial.
Cleanup discipline
Auto-delete previews on PR close, expire after 7 days regardless, and cap concurrent environments per team. Orphaned previews are a cost line nobody owns — automate the janitor.
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